Pacific and Rocky Mountain District tournaments complete

Pacific
It will the LA Selects representing the Pacific District at Nationals as the defeated the Anchorage North Stars 7-1 in the final this afternoon in San Jose California. The LA Selects had a perfect 3-0-0 round robin record defeating the Sno-King Jr. Tbirds out of Seattle (13-0), North Alaska Grizzlies (5-0) and the host San Jose Jr. Sharks (5-1) to advance to the semi-finals and a date with San Jose. In the semi-final, LA Selects broke a 3-3 tie with just under 10 minutes remaining on a goal by captain Brian Williams. Ethan Somoza also scored twice for LA. The Selects were without one of their top players in Steven Owre in this one. He was suspended in round robin action for one game after receiving a game misc for unsportsmanlike conduct. Owre has confirmed his intention and playing in the WHL and is currently one of our top ranked American prospects for the draft. Owre and his family are originally from Edmonton. In the final, the met Anchorage North Stars who proved to be no match at all in what was a 7-1 LA victory and they out-shot Achorage 39-10. LA got 2-3-5 from Steven Owre and a pair of goals from Griffin Bennetti. Star defenseman Patrick Newell had 1-2-3. Lane Bauer from Anchorage led all players with 8 goals in the tournament and led all players with 13 points. Taylor Vickerman was a stand-out as expected for Spokane, who fell in the semi's to achorage. Vickerman had 6-1-7 in the tournament and was a force. Steven Owre was likely the MVP, although I didn't get word officially on that.

Rocky Mountain District
The Rocky Mountain District tournament is complete and not too surprising it was the Colorado Thunderbirds winning in the final by a score of 7-1 over the Rocky Mountain Roughriders. Dominic Turgeon was a force in the final with 3-2-5 and Fredrik Olofsson had 1-3-4. Colorado was able to advance to the final with a 6-3 victory over Dallas Alliance in the semi's. Tanner Smith had a pair of goals and Turgeon along with Olofsson had 2 points each. Colorado scored 5 3rd period goals in that one and were able to hold off Jet Bell who scored 4-1-5.